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The Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (IIFFMCG) appeared in September 2009, in three volumes.1 With a certain degree of hubris, the Report asserts that the ‘successful political action’ of the French President, acting on behalf of the European Union (EU) ‘stood in contrast to the failure of the international community, including the [United Nations] Security Council …’2
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14. On this see B. Bowring (2008) ‘Positivism Versus Self-Determination: The Contradictions of Soviet International Law’ in S. Marks (ed.) International Law on the Left: Re-Examining Marxist Legacies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp.133–168.
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18. See B. Bowring (1997) ‘Russia’s Accession to the Council of Europe and Human Rights: Compliance or Cross-Purposes?’, European Human Rights Law Review, 6, 629; and B. Bowring (2000) ‘Russia’s Accession to the Council of Europe and Human Rights: Four Years On’, European Human Law Review, 4, 362.
21. See B. Bowring (1998) ‘Sergei Kovalyov: The First Russian Human Rights Ombudsman – and the Last?’ in R. Müllerson, M. Fitzmaurice and M. Adenas (eds) Constitutional Reform and International Law in Central and Eastern Europe (London: Kluwer Law International), pp. 235–256.
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40. S. Leckie (1988) ‘The Inter-State Complaint Procedure in International Human Rights Law: Hopeful Prospects or Wishful Thinking?’, Human Rights Quarterly, 10, 2, 249–303.
46. L. Loucaides (2002) ‘The Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the Case of Cyprus v Turkey’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 15, 225–236. See also L. Loucaides (2004) ‘The Protection of the Right to Property in Occupied Territories’, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 53, 670–690.
63. B. Bowring (2008) The Degradation of the International Legal Order? The Rehabilitation of Law and the Possibility of Politics (Abingdon: Routledge Cavendish), Chapter 1, pp. 9–38.
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Bowring, B. (2010). Georgia, Russia and the Crisis of the Council of Europe: Inter-State Applications, Individual Complaints, and the Future of the Strasbourg Model of Human Rights Litigation. In: Green, J.A., Waters, C.P.M. (eds) Conflict in the Caucasus. Euro-Asian Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230292413_6
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